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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:truthout="http://www.truthout.org/"> <channel> <title>Articles – Truthout</title> <atom:link href="https://truthout.org/articles/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://truthout.org</link> <description>Fearless Independent Journalism</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:20:59 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3</generator> <image> <url>https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Truthout-T-logo-sq-1200x1200-e1521532408148-60x60.png</url> <title>Articles – Truthout</title> <link>https://truthout.org</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height></image> <item> <title>Gaza Solidarity Encampment Regroups Following Arrest of 108 Students at Columbia</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-solidarity-encampment-regroups-following-arrest-of-108-students-at-columbia/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Janakiram]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:20:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317004</guid> <description><![CDATA[The protesters, who are demanding that Columbia divest from Israel, have relocated and rebuilt their encampment.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Thursday, April 18, a swarm of NYPD officers in riot gear arrested 108 students at Columbia University in an attempt to dismantle an encampment of student protesters demanding Columbia’s full financial and academic divestment from Israel. The move evoked the historic arrest and beating of hundreds of Columbia demonstrators in 1968 after they occupied Hamilton Hall, in protest of the Vietnam War.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-solidarity-encampment-regroups-following-arrest-of-108-students-at-columbia/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Emily Janakiram]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2147912662-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='118294' /> </item> <item> <title>Polluters Must Foot the Bill for Cleaning Up “Forever Chemicals” Under New Rule</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/polluters-must-foot-the-bill-for-cleaning-up-forever-chemicals-under-new-rule/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shannon Kelleher]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:03:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carcinogens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[forever chemicals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PFAS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317000</guid> <description><![CDATA[Health advocates celebrated the news and some called for further action to limit exposure to the pervasive chemicals.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>regulators on Friday finalized a rule designating two widespread PFAS chemicals as hazardous substances, a step the agencies says will ensure polluters pay to clean up contamination and reduce Americans’ exposure to the toxic chemicals. Under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), or Superfund law, the rule will require leaks and spills of...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/polluters-must-foot-the-bill-for-cleaning-up-forever-chemicals-under-new-rule/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Shannon Kelleher]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The New Lede]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1326649686-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='142596' /> </item> <item> <title>Organizers in Idaho Are Readying for an Abortion Rights Ballot Initiative</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/organizers-in-idaho-are-readying-for-an-abortion-rights-ballot-initiative/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:45:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Idaho abortion ban]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Idahoans United for Women and Families]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=317002</guid> <description><![CDATA[Polling in Idaho shows that an abortion rights initiative could potentially be successful.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following Idaho lawmakers’ failure to revise the state’s abortion ban, a group of Idaho residents is exploring the possibility of putting a ballot initiative before voters to allow them to decide on abortion rights for themselves. Idaho’s trigger ban on abortion was automatically implemented after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn abortion rights protections across the country.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/organizers-in-idaho-are-readying-for-an-abortion-rights-ballot-initiative/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0419-idaho-abortion-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='168145' /> </item> <item> <title>Meet the Teenager Challenging Iowa’s Anti-LGBTQ Legislation</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/meet-the-teenager-challenging-iowas-anti-lgbtq-legislation/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Crossett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:12:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Trans Legislation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Book Bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316990</guid> <description><![CDATA[Iowa teen Puck Carlson is pushing back against Iowa legislators’ attack on LGBTQ youth through activism and a lawsuit.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Puck Carlson was in third grade, some kids at their school decided to start a basketball team, but it was only for boys. “I didn’t care at all about basketball,” Puck told Truthout. “I’ve never been the sports type. But my friend Rachel wanted to join the team, and I sort of realized, oh, they’re not going to let her on. Because she’s a girl. And I think we made like a petition.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/meet-the-teenager-challenging-iowas-anti-lgbtq-legislation/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Laura Crossett]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/1-lead-photo-Puck-Carlson-Credit-ACLU-of-Iowa-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='100494' /> </item> <item> <title>US Vetoes Palestine’s Bid to Become a Full Member of the UN</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-vetoes-palestines-bid-to-become-a-full-member-of-the-un/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:10:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestinian Statehood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UN]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UN Security Council]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316995</guid> <description><![CDATA[The resolution's failure "will not defeat our determination," said Palestine's permanent observer at the United Nations.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday used the country’s veto power at the United Nations Security Council to block Palestine’s bid to become a full member of the U.N. While 12 nations voted in favor of Palestinian membership and two abstained, the United States is one of five countries — along with China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom — who have veto authority at the...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-vetoes-palestines-bid-to-become-a-full-member-of-the-un/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2147910817-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='118563' /> </item> <item> <title>Survey: Palestinians and Their Allies Are Experiencing Racism, Isolation</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/survey-palestinians-and-their-allies-are-experiencing-racism-isolation/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:53:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestinian genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316984</guid> <description><![CDATA[The survey showcases how "anti-Palestinian racism affects many more people than previously expected," the authors said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A survey published this week by the Anti-Palestinian Racism Research Group showcases how anti-Palestinian racism amid Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza has affected the mental health of Palestinian Americans and their allies. The organization, which describes itself as consisting of “researchers, physicians, and psychologists who are committed to empirically studying the impact of anti...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/survey-palestinians-and-their-allies-are-experiencing-racism-isolation/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0419-palestine-poll-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='63218' /> </item> <item> <title>Biden Administration’s New Title IX Rules Reverse Trump-Era Changes</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/biden-administrations-new-title-ix-rules-reverse-trump-era-changes/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadra Nittle]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:12:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sexual Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Title IX]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316982</guid> <description><![CDATA[Advocates for sexual violence survivors and the LGBTQ community have long called for updates to the federal regulations.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since President Joe Biden first took office, advocates for sexual violence survivors and the LGBTQ+ community have pressured his administration to update the federal regulations that protect such groups from discrimination in schools and colleges. Now that day is here. The Department of Education announced on Friday that it has finalized the rule under Title IX — the historic federal civil rights...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-administrations-new-title-ix-rules-reverse-trump-era-changes/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Nadra Nittle]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1833410054-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='123355' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Police Arrest Renowned Feminist Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/israeli-police-arrest-renowned-feminist-scholar-nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:12:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hebrew University]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestinian Scholars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestinians]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=316987</guid> <description><![CDATA[More than 100 professors around the world released a statement calling for her immediate release.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli police arrested the internationally renowned feminist Palestinian academic Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian at her home in Jerusalem on Thursday on charges of incitement to violence. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who holds both Israeli and U.S. citizenship, was suspended by Hebrew University last month after saying in an interview Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, though the university later...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/israeli-police-arrest-renowned-feminist-scholar-nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/SEG1-Nadera-Arrest-Court-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='51121' /> </item> <item> <title>Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Day After Omar Grills Its President</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/columbia-suspends-ilhan-omars-daughter-day-after-omar-grills-its-president/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:28:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316979</guid> <description><![CDATA[Omar had grilled Shafik about her characterization of pro-Palestine protests as antisemitic.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isra Hirsi, pro-Palestine activist and daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), announced on Thursday that she was one of a handful of activists who have been suspended from Barnard College, a partner college of Columbia University, amid a mass student protest over Columbia and Barnard’s investments in companies that support Israel and its genocide of Gaza. “I’m an organizer with CU Apartheid...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/columbia-suspends-ilhan-omars-daughter-day-after-omar-grills-its-president/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_04-18-columbia-gaza-protest-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='110902' /> </item> <item> <title>Transgender Teen in WV Can Play on Track Team, Federal Appeals Court Says</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/transgender-teen-in-wv-can-play-on-track-team-federal-appeals-court-says/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:35:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sports bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transgender sports bans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316974</guid> <description><![CDATA[“This is a massive victory for trans rights,” LGBTQ legislative researcher Allison Chapman told Truthout. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A federal appeals court will allow a West Virginia teen to participate on her school’s sports team, despite a law on the books prohibiting transgender student athletes from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity. “Trans student athletes belong on the team with their peers and I’m thrilled that the 4th Circuit has ruled in their favor,” LGBTQ legislative researcher Allison Chapman...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/transgender-teen-in-wv-can-play-on-track-team-federal-appeals-court-says/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1472157328-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='101827' /> </item> <item> <title>$50 Million “Mystery Loan” to Trump Warrants Inquiry, Watchdog Group Says</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/50-million-mystery-loan-to-trump-warrants-inquiry-watchdog-group-says/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:27:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump inquiries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump loans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Organization]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316975</guid> <description><![CDATA[Even though Trump included the loan in publicly released financial disclosures, there's no evidence it ever existed.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A nonprofit watchdog group has filed a complaint to the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleging that former President Donald Trump improperly listed a “mystery loan” on financial disclosures that could be evidence of tax fraud. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said in its Thursday filing to the DOJ that there is “credible evidence” that Trump, in describing a $50 million...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/50-million-mystery-loan-to-trump-warrants-inquiry-watchdog-group-says/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0418-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='51903' /> </item> <item> <title>US Is Lobbying Against UN Palestinian Statehood Resolution, Leak Reveals</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-is-lobbying-against-un-palestinian-statehood-resolution-leak-reveals/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:23:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UN Security Council]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316939</guid> <description><![CDATA[Full UN membership is crucial for a two-state solution or another outcome allowing for Palestinian self-determination.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. is lobbying fellow UN Security Council members to vote against an upcoming resolution that would recognize Palestinian statehood, leaked documents obtained by The Intercept show, severely undercutting the White House’s stated position of supporting a two-state solution. The State Department cables reportedly show that U.S. officials are pressuring fellow Security Council members like...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-is-lobbying-against-un-palestinian-statehood-resolution-leak-reveals/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2097692284-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='125460' /> </item> <item> <title>Under UN Charter, Iran’s Attack Was a Legal Response to Israel’s Illegal Attack</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/under-un-charter-irans-attack-was-a-legal-response-to-israels-illegal-attack/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:07:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316970</guid> <description><![CDATA[Iran’s attack on Israel was lawful self-defense carried out in compliance with international humanitarian law.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On April 1, Israel mounted an unprovoked military attack on a building that was part of the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, killing seven of Iran’s senior military advisers and five additional people. The victims included Gen. Mohamad Reza Zahedi, head of Iran’s covert military operations in Lebanon and Syria, and two other senior generals. Although Israel’s attack violated the United...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/under-un-charter-irans-attack-was-a-legal-response-to-israels-illegal-attack/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2147905436-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='88830' /> </item> <item> <title>Climate Crisis Will Shrink Average Global Income 19 Percent in the Next 26 Years</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/climate-crisis-will-shrink-average-global-income-19-percent-in-the-next-26-years/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:54:26 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[global inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Greenhouse Gas Emissions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renewable Energy]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316968</guid> <description><![CDATA[Countries least responsible for climate change may see 40 percent greater income loss than higher-emission countries.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The climate crisis will shrink the average global income 19% in the next 26 years compared to what it would have been without global heating caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, a study published in Nature Wednesday has found. The researchers, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), said that economic shrinkage was largely locked in by mid-century by existing...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/climate-crisis-will-shrink-average-global-income-19-percent-in-the-next-26-years/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2036587170-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='128532' /> </item> <item> <title>Plurality of Voters Do Not Want Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Resign, Polling Shows</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/plurality-of-voters-do-not-want-justice-sonia-sotomayor-to-resign-polling-shows/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:35:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 presidential election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316966</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, 53 percent of voters said Clarence Thomas should quit, while just 26 percent said he should not.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As calls increase for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign from her position ahead of the 2024 presidential election (thereby allowing President Joe Biden to choose a younger successor to serve on the bench), polling has demonstrated that a plurality of Americans don’t want Sotomayor to quit the Court just yet. According to an Economist/YouGov poll published this week...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/plurality-of-voters-do-not-want-justice-sonia-sotomayor-to-resign-polling-shows/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0418-sotomayor-thomas-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='58051' /> </item> <item> <title>Coalition Condemns Google’s Illegal Firing of Workers Protesting Israel Contract</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/coalition-condemns-googles-illegal-firing-of-workers-protesting-israel-contract/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:24:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[firing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Google]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IDF]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israeli Apartheid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[project nimbus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech Workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[workers rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316959</guid> <description><![CDATA[In a $1.2 billion contract, Google and Amazon provide cloud infrastructure and data services to the Israeli government.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The peace coalition No Tech for Apartheid accused Google of a “flagrant act of retaliation” late Wednesday night as the Silicon Valley giant announced it had fired 28 workers over protests against its cloud services contract with the Israeli government. The firings came after Google organizers held two 10-hour sit-ins at the company’s offices in Sunnyvale, California and New York City...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/coalition-condemns-googles-illegal-firing-of-workers-protesting-israel-contract/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1848365502-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='182772' /> </item> <item> <title>Blinken Hasn’t Acted on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/blinken-hasnt-acted-on-staff-recommendations-to-sanction-israeli-military-units/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Murphy]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:55:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antony Blinken]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Department]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316949</guid> <description><![CDATA[A State Department panel said in December that the US should restrict arms sales to units linked to human rights abuses.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses. But Blinken has failed to act on the proposal in the face of growing international criticism of the Israeli military’s conduct in Gaza...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/blinken-hasnt-acted-on-staff-recommendations-to-sanction-israeli-military-units/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Murphy]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2147862464-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='70549' /> </item> <item> <title>GOP Lawmakers Block Bill to Repeal Arizona’s 1864 Anti-Abortion Statute, Again</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gop-lawmakers-block-bill-to-repeal-arizonas-1864-anti-abortion-statute-again/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:29:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona abortion law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ballot Initiatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316945</guid> <description><![CDATA[Republican leaders claimed a repeal bill for the 160-year-old anti-abortion statute was being rushed.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Wednesday, Arizona Republicans blocked efforts in both houses of the state legislature to repeal a territorial-era abortion ban. This marks the second time this month that Republicans blocked advancement or even consideration of a measure to overturn the incredibly burdensome law. The law in question — which was passed in 1864, before Arizona was a state — was reinstated last week by the state...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gop-lawmakers-block-bill-to-repeal-arizonas-1864-anti-abortion-statute-again/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0418-abortion-arizona-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='125144' /> </item> <item> <title>Abolition Is a Project of Human Liberation That Must Be Ongoing</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/abolition-is-a-project-of-human-liberation-that-must-be-ongoing/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Herzing]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:02:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abolition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago Community Bond Fund]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jails]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liberation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mariame Kaba]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Incarceration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prison Industrial Complex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316917</guid> <description><![CDATA[Let’s amplify the efforts already in progress to demolish the prison industrial complex and move toward liberation.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most common misconceptions about prison abolition is that it’s “unrealistic.” However, in Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché’s new book, How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment, they show not only that abolition is an eminently practical project, but also that it is already happening. Organizers are practicing abolition in large and small ways, every day...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/abolition-is-a-project-of-human-liberation-that-must-be-ongoing/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Rachel Herzing, Justin Piché, Maya Schenwar]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout / Inquest]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1246658236-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='58482' /> </item> <item> <title>Meet the Pro-Palestinian Valedictorian Whose Commencement Speech Was Canceled</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/meet-the-pro-palestinian-valedictorian-whose-commencement-speech-was-canceled/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:47:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Asna Tabassum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[University of Southern California]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=316938</guid> <description><![CDATA[Asna Tabassum's speech was dropped by the University of Southern California after an online hate campaign.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amid widespread repression of pro-Palestinian voices on campuses across the United States, we speak to University of Southern California valedictorian Asna Tabassum, whose commencement speech has been canceled for what the university claimed were “safety” reasons after Tabassum became the subject of an online anti-Palestinian hate campaign led by pro-Israel groups. “When I had asked for details...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/meet-the-pro-palestinian-valedictorian-whose-commencement-speech-was-canceled/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman, Juan González, Nermeen Shaikh]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/SEG1-AsnaUSC-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='75106' /> </item> <item> <title>Analyst: Dems, Mike Johnson, Could Form “Coalition Speakership”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/analyst-dems-mike-johnson-could-form-coalition-speakership/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:40:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marjorie Taylor Greene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mike Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[motion to vacate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Speaker of the House]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thomas Massie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Suozzi]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316920</guid> <description><![CDATA[If a vote happens, Johnson is just three GOP votes away from losing speakership — unless some Democrats help him.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the potential for a “motion to vacate” the Speaker of the House measure coming closer to reality this week, some political observers are suggesting that non-MAGA-aligned Republicans and Democrats could vote for a “coalition” choice for the speakership — and that that choice could end up still being Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana). On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) announced he...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/analyst-dems-mike-johnson-could-form-coalition-speakership/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0417-speaker-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='50844' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel Is Expanding Settlements in East Jerusalem at “Unparalleled” Rate</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-is-expanding-settlements-in-east-jerusalem-at-unparalleled-rate/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:17:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[East Jerusalem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Settler Colonialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316905</guid> <description><![CDATA[Violent settler activity in the occupied West Bank has also reached a record rate amid the genocide.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Israeli forces have been carrying out their genocide of Gaza over the past six months, Israeli officials have been expanding construction of illegal settlements in East Jerusalem at a speed not previously seen in modern times, new reporting finds. In a report published Wednesday, The Guardian revealed that the Israeli government has approved or advanced the building of thousands of housing...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-is-expanding-settlements-in-east-jerusalem-at-unparalleled-rate/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_04-17-east-jerusalem-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='195941' /> </item> <item> <title>Spain and Slovenia Lead Push for EU Countries to Recognize Palestinian State</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/spain-and-slovenia-lead-push-for-eu-countries-to-recognize-palestinian-state/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:03:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316915</guid> <description><![CDATA[Proponents say full recognition of Palestine by European countries would help to secure a ceasefire in Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In his latest stop on a tour of several European countries aimed at gathering support for recognizing a Palestinian state, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez joined his Slovenian counterpart on Tuesday in calling to make the diplomatic move to help secure an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestine is already recognized as a state by the vast majority of United Nations members — 139...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/spain-and-slovenia-lead-push-for-eu-countries-to-recognize-palestinian-state/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0417-spain-palestine-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='154202' /> </item> <item> <title>Report: GOP State AGs Abused Authority to Get Trans Patients’ Health Records</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/report-gop-state-ags-abused-authority-to-get-trans-patients-health-records/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:37:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gender-Affirming Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ron wyden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TRANSGENDER RIGHTS]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316910</guid> <description><![CDATA[Committee Chair Ron Wyden chided Vanderbilt University Medical Center for its "utter betrayal" of transgender patients.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A report from the Senate Finance Committee published on Tuesday details how Republican attorneys general from several states abused their authority to obtain the private health care information of transgender patients within — and sometimes beyond — their jurisdictions. The report specifically describes how Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/report-gop-state-ags-abused-authority-to-get-trans-patients-health-records/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0417-hospital-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='178647' /> </item> <item> <title>Nobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/nobody-earns-a-billion-dollars-we-need-a-wealth-tax/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:36:48 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Billionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Market Ideology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inheritance Tax]]></category> <category><![CDATA[universal property]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wealth Tax]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316898</guid> <description><![CDATA[Economist James K. Boyce analyzes new data on US disparities and frames environmental degradation as a class issue. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and the richest 1 percent of humanity accounts for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66 percent. Indeed, the interconnection between climate change and economic inequality has emerged as a central theme in serious economic analyses and a focal...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/nobody-earns-a-billion-dollars-we-need-a-wealth-tax/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0417-billionaire-tax-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='177710' /> </item> <item> <title>Business Booms for Lockheed Martin as Risk of Regional War Grows</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/business-booms-for-lockheed-martin-as-risk-of-regional-war-grows/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Cleveland-Stout]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:19:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Defense Contractors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lockheed Martin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stock Market]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weapons manufacturers]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316909</guid> <description><![CDATA[Following Iran’s strike, bankers are upgrading their stock in the company that’s played a role in Israel’s war on Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the weekend, Iran launched over 300 missiles at Nevatim Air Base, a base in southern Israel that houses U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who oversaw a strike on an Iranian consulate in Syria just a few weeks ago, has already promised to retaliate. Observers viewed these brewing tensions with concern, ringing the alarm bells of the breakout of a wider war.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/business-booms-for-lockheed-martin-as-risk-of-regional-war-grows/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Nick Cleveland-Stout]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Responsible Statecraft]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0417-lockheed-martin-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='131735' /> </item> <item> <title>The Right to an Abortion Might Be on the 2024 Ballot in Montana</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-right-to-an-abortion-might-be-on-the-2024-ballot-in-montana/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:34:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion ballot initiatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ballot initiative]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316912</guid> <description><![CDATA[Montana is among 13 states currently working to have constitutional amendments related to abortion on the 2024 ballot.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights has officially launched a campaign to place a state constitutional amendment safeguarding abortion rights on the ballot for the general election this November. The group will need to gather 60,000 signatures from Montana residents by June 21 to qualify for the ballot. “With 2024 shaping up to be the biggest year ever for abortion on the ballot...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-right-to-an-abortion-might-be-on-the-2024-ballot-in-montana/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2147817477-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='51740' /> </item> <item> <title>One Year Into War, Sudan Is Experiencing the World’s Largest Displacement Crisis</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/one-year-into-war-sudan-is-experiencing-the-worlds-largest-displacement-crisis/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:17:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Displacement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Famine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sudan War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UAE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=316906</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, the number of Sudanese facing emergency levels of hunger has more than tripled in a year to almost 5 million.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One year ago this week, a devastating conflict erupted in Sudan when a fragile alliance between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces collapsed. The war initially began around the capital city of Khartoum but quickly spread to other parts of Sudan, including Darfur, Port Sudan and the Gezira state, situated in the country’s agricultural heartland. One year on...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/one-year-into-war-sudan-is-experiencing-the-worlds-largest-displacement-crisis/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/seg-sudn-displaced-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='94968' /> </item> <item> <title>Abortion Leave Is Covered by Workplace Protections, Federal Agency Confirms</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-leave-is-covered-by-workplace-protections-federal-agency-confirms/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicole Karlis]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:56:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion Access]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pregnant Workers Fairness Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316900</guid> <description><![CDATA[Abortion-related protections are consistent with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the agency said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finalized its Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations, after being criticized by conservative lawmakers and religious organizations. Part of the update included a clarification that accommodations, like a leave of absence, under the law apply to abortion care. The EEOC said it received approximately 54,000 comments — “most of which...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-leave-is-covered-by-workplace-protections-federal-agency-confirms/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Nicole Karlis]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Salon]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0417-abortion-care-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='82526' /> </item> <item> <title>Biden Claims to Support a Two-State Solution. His Policies Say Otherwise.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/biden-claims-to-support-a-two-state-solution-his-policies-say-otherwise/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Zunes]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:36:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestinian Authority]]></category> <category><![CDATA[two-state solution]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316868</guid> <description><![CDATA[The administration pays lip service to a two-state solution while blocking every possible avenue toward that goal.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recent initiatives by the Palestinian government to revive their application for UN membership are putting to the test the U.S. claim that it supports a “two-state solution” — a Palestinian state on at least some portion of the West Bank and Gaza Strip alongside a secure Israel. In practice, however, the Biden administration and Congress have been working hard to ensure that that does not come...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-claims-to-support-a-two-state-solution-his-policies-say-otherwise/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Stephen Zunes]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0417-joe-biden-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='78933' /> </item> <item> <title>Right-Wing SCOTUS Sounds Skeptical of Statute Used to Charge Capitol Attackers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-scotus-sounds-skeptical-of-statute-used-to-charge-capitol-attackers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Capitol Attack]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[January 6]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obstruction of an official proceeding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316899</guid> <description><![CDATA[The justices are trying to figure out how to let the rioters "off the hook on the obstruction charges,” said one report.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Conservative justices of the United States Supreme Court seemed ready to narrow the interpretation of a federal statute relating to the obstruction of official proceedings, an action that, if they indeed do so, will affect a plethora of cases relating to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 — including possibly the case relating to Donald Trump’s attempt to usurp the 2020 presidential...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-scotus-sounds-skeptical-of-statute-used-to-charge-capitol-attackers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0417-capitol-attack-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='185918' /> </item> <item> <title>Demonstrators Across the World Disrupt Cities in Protest of Gaza Genocide</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/demonstrators-across-the-world-disrupt-cities-in-protest-of-gaza-genocide/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:21:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316892</guid> <description><![CDATA[Protesters across 50 cities waged an economic blockade, blocking highways and shutting down arms manufacturers.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Demonstrators across every inhabited continent took to the streets to block major corridors and spots of economic activity on Monday, April 15, in a coordinated economic disruption to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The “A15” protests were planned across 50 cities, including 21 in the U.S., encompassing 17 countries in total. Protesters blocked shipping ports and railroads...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/demonstrators-across-the-world-disrupt-cities-in-protest-of-gaza-genocide/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_04-16-philly-a15-protest-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='206206' /> </item> <item> <title>Leaked Document Shows NYT Censorship of Words Like “Genocide” in Gaza Coverage</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/leaked-document-shows-nyt-censorship-of-words-like-genocide-in-gaza-coverage/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:55:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporate Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316875</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Times discourages references to “Palestine,” in a refusal to acknowledge the state Israel has been occupying.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The New York Times has a policy of systematically censoring words like “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” in its coverage of Israel’s genocidal assault of Gaza, according to an internal memo obtained by The Intercept this week. The Times memo instructs its journalists to avoid using the terms “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing” and “refugee camps” when writing about Palestine. It directs them to steer...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/leaked-document-shows-nyt-censorship-of-words-like-genocide-in-gaza-coverage/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_04-16-nyt-palestine-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='99039' /> </item> <item> <title>SCOTUS Declines to Review First Amendment Mass Protest Rights Case</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-declines-to-review-first-amendment-mass-protest-rights-case/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:25:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Protest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316890</guid> <description><![CDATA[ “[P]eople don’t need to be afraid to show up. The Constitution still protects our right to protest,” McKesson said. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review a case with significant ramifications for protest rights in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. The Court’s denial of certiorari allows the anti-First Amendment decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, known as one of the most conservative circuits in the nation, to go into effect. “The courts refusal to take up the first amendment protest case...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-declines-to-review-first-amendment-mass-protest-rights-case/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1250767341-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='130874' /> </item> <item> <title>Millionaires’ Effective Tax Rate Has Been Cut by Half Since Mid-20th Century</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/millionaires-effective-tax-rate-has-been-cut-by-half-since-mid-20th-century/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:22:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Americans for Tax Fairness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Billionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[millionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wealth Gap]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316859</guid> <description><![CDATA[Between 1945 and 1980, households with a $1 million income or more paid effective tax rates as high as 60 percent.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Millionaires are currently being taxed at half of the effective tax rate they were paying in the mid-20th century, a new report finds, as the tax code has become increasingly regressive and wealth inequality has reached record highs in recent years. In an analysis released on Tax Day, Americans for Tax Fairness found that Americans with incomes of $1 million or more are effectively being taxed at...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/millionaires-effective-tax-rate-has-been-cut-by-half-since-mid-20th-century/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_04-15-tax-protest-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='68339' /> </item> <item> <title>Maine Brings US “One Step Closer” to Ending Electoral College</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/maine-brings-us-one-step-closer-to-ending-electoral-college/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:10:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Electoral College]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Popular Vote]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Popular Vote Interstate Compact]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Popular Vote]]></category> <category><![CDATA[presidential elections]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316888</guid> <description><![CDATA[Maine accepted the interstate agreement after Democratic Gov. Janet Mills refused to sign or veto the bill.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maine has become the 18th jurisdiction in the United States to pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which, if enacted, would end the Electoral College’s influence in the selection process for the office of president. The bill, which was passed by the Democratic-controlled state legislature, made it to Gov. Janet Mills’s (D) desk last week. Mills opted not to sign the bill but also...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/maine-brings-us-one-step-closer-to-ending-electoral-college/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0416-maine-flag-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='57137' /> </item> <item> <title>Prison Notorious for Rape Is Slated for Closure But Not Releasing Survivors</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/prison-notorious-for-rape-is-slated-for-closure-but-not-releasing-survivors/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Law]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:26:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bureau of Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[compassionate release]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FCI Dublin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Incarceration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sexual Abuse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Survivors]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316871</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Prisons initially planned to empty FCI Dublin by April 19. Those inside fear being sent far from family.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The sudden April 15 announcement that FCI Dublin, the federal women’s prison in California dubbed “the rape club,” is slated to be closed came as a shock to those inside — as well as to their attorneys, a federal judge and the monitor she recently appointed for independent oversight. For the women who have been raising an alarm for decades about the widespread and systemic sexual abuse committed...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/prison-notorious-for-rape-is-slated-for-closure-but-not-releasing-survivors/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Victoria Law]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0416-fci-dublin-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='96087' /> </item> <item> <title>University of Southern California Cancels Muslim Valedictorian’s Speech</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/university-of-southern-california-cancels-muslim-valedictorians-speech/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:23:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[University of Southern California]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316882</guid> <description><![CDATA[Asna Tabassum, who minored in genocide studies, says she feels her university has abandoned her.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a decision that the largest U.S. Muslim civil rights organization called “cowardly,” the University of Southern California announced Monday that it would not allow a Muslim valedictorian to speak at its commencement ceremony, citing safety concerns. USC’s 2024 valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, is a first-generation South Asian Muslim student majoring in biomedical engineering with a minor in...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/university-of-southern-california-cancels-muslim-valedictorians-speech/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Olivia Rosane]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0416-university-of-so-cal-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='141424' /> </item> <item> <title>Journalist Describes Violence Against Palestinians in the West Bank as Pogroms</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/journalist-describes-violence-against-palestinians-in-the-west-bank-as-pogroms/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:11:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ethnic Cleansing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mainstream Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=316881</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dalia Hatuqa discusses record-high displacement in the West Bank, Israel’s crackdown on journalists, and more.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Western corporate media is failing in its coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, says Palestinian independent journalist Dalia Hatuqa. “A lot of what’s missing from the bigger portrait … is the Palestinian voice,” says Hatuqa, who applauds local journalists in Gaza for providing the world a crucial window into what’s happening there while international reporters are blocked by Israel from entering...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/journalist-describes-violence-against-palestinians-in-the-west-bank-as-pogroms/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/seg2-dalia-home-burned-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='93253' /> </item> <item> <title>Tennessee GOP-Sponsored Bill Requires Schools to Out Trans Students to Parents</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/tennessee-gop-sponsored-bill-requires-schools-to-out-trans-students-to-parents/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:05:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ students]]></category> <category><![CDATA[parental rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TRANSGENDER RIGHTS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transgender students]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316876</guid> <description><![CDATA[Experts say such laws threaten the mental and physical well-being of transgender children.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Tennessee bill that would require schools to out transgender students to their parents is nearing passage in the Republican-dominated state legislature and may soon advance to the governor, who will likely sign it into law. The measure, Senate Bill 1810, passed the Tennessee House of Representatives on Monday. It now goes to the Senate, which passed a similar version of the bill earlier this...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/tennessee-gop-sponsored-bill-requires-schools-to-out-trans-students-to-parents/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0416-tn-capitol-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='105639' /> </item> <item> <title>Low-Income Consumers Were Targeted in ACA Plan-Switching Scheme, Lawsuit Alleges</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/low-income-consumers-were-targeted-in-aca-plan-switching-scheme-lawsuit-alleges/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Appleby]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:30:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316866</guid> <description><![CDATA[Insurance call centers enrolled people in Affordable Care Act plans or switched their existing coverage without consent.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A wide-ranging lawsuit filed April 12 outlines a moneymaking scheme by which large insurance sales agency call centers enrolled people into Affordable Care Act plans or switched their coverage, all without their permission. According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, two such call centers paid tens of thousands of dollars a day to buy names of...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/low-income-consumers-were-targeted-in-aca-plan-switching-scheme-lawsuit-alleges/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julie Appleby]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[KFF Health News]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0415-aca-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='189393' /> </item> <item> <title>From Florida to Australia, Global Coral Bleaching Could Soon Be Worst on Record</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/global-coral-reef-bleaching-event-brings-bad-news-for-the-climate/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:09:54 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[coral bleaching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coral Reef]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Barrier Reef]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NOAA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oceans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316863</guid> <description><![CDATA[Coral reefs are a reliable gauge of climate disruption, and 90 percent of global warming is occurring in the oceans.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After a year of ocean heat waves and unprecedented temperatures off the coast of Florida that alarmed conservationists last summer, the world is currently experiencing a “global coral reef bleaching event,” the fourth ever recorded and the second in the past decade, according to climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Coral reef bleaching occurs as warming...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/global-coral-reef-bleaching-event-brings-bad-news-for-the-climate/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0416-Coral-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='120670' /> </item> <item> <title>FL Senate’s Tampa Bay Maps Are Racial Gerrymander, Residents Allege in Lawsuit</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/fl-senate-tampa-bay-maps-are-racial-gerrymander-residents-allege-in-lawsuit/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:56:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category> <category><![CDATA[black voters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gerrymandering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Redistricting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316864</guid> <description><![CDATA[The lawsuit claims Black voters were "packed" into one district, diluting their ability to influence outcomes elsewhere.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week, five residents of the Tampa Bay area of Florida filed a federal lawsuit alleging that racial gerrymandering had diluted the voting power of Black voters in two state Senate districts. The two Senate districts in question, which were drawn by the state legislature in 2022, rest along the banks of Tampa Bay. District 16 is represented by Democratic State Sen. Darryl Rouson, who is Black...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/fl-senate-tampa-bay-maps-are-racial-gerrymander-residents-allege-in-lawsuit/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0416-fl-lawsuit-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='116555' /> </item> <item> <title>Money’s Getting Tight for Abortion Travel Funders as Florida, Arizona Bans Loom</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/moneys-getting-tight-for-abortion-travel-funders-as-florida-arizona-bans-loom/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shefali Luthra]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:44:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion Funds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316858</guid> <description><![CDATA[With people needing to travel greater distances, abortion access funders worry their travel budgets will fall short.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With Florida set to enforce a six-week abortion ban as early as May 1 and a near-total prohibition taking effect soon after in Arizona, staffers at abortion funds say they won’t be able to meet the increased demand for help funding out-of-state travel — a development that could lead to more people continuing unintended pregnancies. “I don’t think people quite understand the ramifications...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/moneys-getting-tight-for-abortion-travel-funders-as-florida-arizona-bans-loom/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Shefali Luthra]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0415-abortion-florida-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='92636' /> </item> <item> <title>Cori Bush: Lawmakers’ Warmongering Against Iran Is “Blatantly Unconstitutional”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/cori-bush-lawmakers-warmongering-against-iran-is-blatantly-unconstitutional/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:26:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cori Bush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ilhan Omar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jamaal Bowman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316841</guid> <description><![CDATA[“We cannot let the warmongers win; our country and our world are calling for restraint,” said Rep. Cori Bush.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the wake of a series of retaliatory attacks launched by Iran on Saturday after Israel killed 16 people in a bombing of Iran’s embassy in Syria earlier this month, progressive lawmakers in the U.S. are warning fellow lawmakers against calling for a war against Iran — and instead are calling for an immediate ceasefire “on all sides” as Israel’s aggression in Palestine and beyond is causing...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/cori-bush-lawmakers-warmongering-against-iran-is-blatantly-unconstitutional/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_04-15-cori-bush-stop-bombing-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='89696' /> </item> <item> <title>Activists Slam Biden Admin’s Approval of Largest Offshore Oil Export Terminal</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/activists-slam-biden-admins-approval-of-largest-offshore-oil-export-terminal/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:01:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[offshore drilling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sea Port Oil Terminal]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316848</guid> <description><![CDATA[Fenceline communities will again be at risk for more oil spills, explosions and pollution, says one climate advocate.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Climate action groups are vehemently rejecting the Biden administration’s claim that the approval of a new offshore oil terminal — planned to be the largest in the U.S. — is in the “national interest,” after the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the project had met several federal requirements and could begin operations by 2027. The agency’s Maritime Administration said last week that...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/activists-slam-biden-admins-approval-of-largest-offshore-oil-export-terminal/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0415-joe-biden-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='58876' /> </item> <item> <title>Sterilization Procedures Have Surged Among Young People Following “Dobbs”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sterilization-procedures-have-surged-among-young-people-post-dobbs/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:34:26 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Contraception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dobbs v. jackson Women's Health Organization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sterilization]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316851</guid> <description><![CDATA[“[T]his research highlight[s] the indirect effects of 'Dobbs' on reproductive autonomy,” the lead researcher said. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A national study published by JAMA Health Forum found that there was an abrupt surge in permanent sterilization procedures among young adults ages 18 through 30 after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, which reversed the constitutional right to an abortion. “If options for avoiding pregnancy and/or avoiding carrying pregnancies to term are severely limited, as has happened in 21 states since Dobbs...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sterilization-procedures-have-surged-among-young-people-post-dobbs/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2131315841-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='110721' /> </item> <item> <title>The Middle East Is Bracing for Wider War as Israel Weighs Response to Iran</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/the-middle-east-is-bracing-for-wider-war-as-israel-weighs-response-to-iran/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:45:31 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=316847</guid> <description><![CDATA[Journalists Reza Sayah and Gideon Levy join analyst Trita Parsi to discuss the possibility of a regional war.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Middle East is bracing for the possibility of regional war after Iran responded to Israel’s bombing of the Iranian Consulate in Damascus with a major drone and missile attack Saturday. The attack caused little damage inside Israel, as it intercepted nearly all of the drones and missiles with help from the United States, Britain, France and Jordan. Iran’s government described the attack as a...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/the-middle-east-is-bracing-for-wider-war-as-israel-weighs-response-to-iran/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/SEG1-Reza-Gideon-Trita-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='61805' /> </item> <item> <title>Collapse of White Nationalist Party Offers Lessons for Anti-Fascist Strategy</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/collapse-of-white-nationalist-party-offers-lessons-for-anti-fascist-strategy/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane Burley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:22:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alt Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[antifascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Far Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unite the Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[White Supremacy]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316843</guid> <description><![CDATA[The inherent instability of white supremacist groups offers anti-fascists the tools to sow chaos within the movement. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2024 began with a declaration of failure from within the white nationalist movement: The National Justice Party (NJP) is toast. Billed as a working-class white political party from the people who ran The Right Stuff (TRS) podcast network, and the racist talk radio vehicle TDS (renamed as such after being originally called The Daily Shoah) in particular, the NJP was an intentional effort to soak up...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/collapse-of-white-nationalist-party-offers-lessons-for-anti-fascist-strategy/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Shane Burley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0415-racism-protest-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='284631' /> </item> <item> <title>Edward Snowden Is Among Those Sounding the Alarm Over Spying Expansion</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/edward-snowden-is-among-those-sounding-the-alarm-over-spying-expansion/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:08:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Surveillance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Security Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316838</guid> <description><![CDATA[Privacy advocates warn a major expansion of mass surveillance could hand “Stasi-like powers” to a Trump administration.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is among the privacy advocates sounding the alarm over a major expansion of mass surveillance that the U.S. House approved in a bipartisan vote last week, a step toward handing the federal government — and a potential second Trump administration — even more power to spy on Americans’ communications without a warrant. Sean Vitka, policy director of Demand Progress...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/edward-snowden-is-among-those-sounding-the-alarm-over-spying-expansion/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0415-edward-snowden-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='143941' /> </item> <item> <title>Calls Grow for De-escalation as Israel Vows to Retaliate Against Iran</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/calls-grow-for-de-escalation-as-israel-vows-to-retaliate-against-iran/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:14:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316833</guid> <description><![CDATA[Progressives say along with a Gaza ceasefire, diplomacy and restraint are needed to stop a region-wide war.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since Iran on Saturday sent hundreds of drones and missiles — which were mostly shot down — toward Israel to retaliate for an Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria, anti-war voices around the world have called for de-escalation efforts. “We are deeply concerned that Iranian retaliatory strikes following Israel’s April 1 attack on its diplomatic compound in Damascus will move the region...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/calls-grow-for-de-escalation-as-israel-vows-to-retaliate-against-iran/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0415-palestine-iran2-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='178071' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Makes History Today as First Ex-President to Face Criminal Trial</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-makes-history-today-as-first-ex-president-to-face-criminal-trial/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:05:26 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 presidential election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hush Money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Manhattan District Attorney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump indictments]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump trials]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316829</guid> <description><![CDATA[After several failed attempts to delay, Trump is finally seeing the official start to one of his four criminal trials.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donald Trump has become the first former president in United States history to face a criminal trial after leaving office, a distinction he tried but failed to avoid. Monday is the official start of his New York state-based trial, with jury selection beginning this morning. It’s likely that the selection process will last one to two weeks, and that the remainder of the trial will last around six...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-makes-history-today-as-first-ex-president-to-face-criminal-trial/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0415-trump-trial-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='62001' /> </item> <item> <title>Gerrymandering Denies Incarcerated People Fair Democratic Representation</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gerrymandering-denies-incarcerated-people-fair-democratic-representation/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Walicek]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:48:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Census Bureau]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gerrymandering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Incarcerated People]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Representation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voting Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316831</guid> <description><![CDATA[The US Census counts incarcerated people as residents of prisons, not their home towns — with undemocratic results.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In recent years, the concept of gerrymandering has entered the mainstream political conversation — particularly as it relates to toying with voting population percentages, a strategy which Republicans have put to especially effective use. (Though it’s not exclusive to the right, and there are signs that its advantage may be starting to fray.) Named for 18th-century Vice President Elbridge Gerry...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gerrymandering-denies-incarcerated-people-fair-democratic-representation/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Tyler Walicek]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0415-prison-voting-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='89650' /> </item> <item> <title>Abortion Bans and Divorce Restrictions Are Dangerous Combo for Pregnant People</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-bans-and-divorce-restrictions-are-dangerous-combo-for-pregnant-people/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Gerson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:14:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion acces]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Domestic Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316802</guid> <description><![CDATA[Experts are raising concerns about what the intersection — now in four states — means for victims of domestic violence.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Four states restrict divorce during pregnancy, and, with a decision by the Arizona Supreme Court this week, now all four also have near-total bans on abortion. It’s a combination that can be fatal, say experts on domestic violence. A study recently published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons found that states that restricted abortion access from 2018 to 2020 had a 75 percent...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-bans-and-divorce-restrictions-are-dangerous-combo-for-pregnant-people/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jennifer Gerson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2115237708-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='158430' /> </item> <item> <title>Nearly 1 in 4 Adults Kicked Off Medicaid Are Now Uninsured, Survey Finds</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/nearly-1-in-4-adults-kicked-off-medicaid-are-now-uninsured-survey-finds/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Galewitz]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:11:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316804</guid> <description><![CDATA[Medicaid "unwinding" is causing a massive drop in insurance coverage and health care access.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year say they are now uninsured, according to a survey released Friday that details how tens of millions of Americans struggled to retain coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people after pandemic-era protections began expiring last spring. The first national survey of adults whose Medicaid eligibility was...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/nearly-1-in-4-adults-kicked-off-medicaid-are-now-uninsured-survey-finds/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Phil Galewitz]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[KFF Health News]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1887420425-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='76859' /> </item> <item> <title>Florida Reproductive Rights Advocates Kick Off Abortion Ballot Measure Campaign</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/florida-reproductive-rights-advocates-kick-off-abortion-ballot-measure-campaign/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:03:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ballot measure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316822</guid> <description><![CDATA[Supporters rallied in Orlando, pushing Floridians to vote "Yes on 4" to outlaw pre-viability abortion bans.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Supporters of a Florida ballot measure that would outlaw pre-viability abortion bans kicked off the “Yes on 4” campaign in Orlando on Saturday, after the state Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the proposed amendment can be considered in November. Abortion care patients, their partners, healthcare providers, and pro-choice politicians were among those who gathered in Lake Eola Park to...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/florida-reproductive-rights-advocates-kick-off-abortion-ballot-measure-campaign/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2148535305-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='104950' /> </item> <item> <title>Iran Launches Retaliatory Strikes on Israel, Signals US Should Avoid Escalation</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/iran-launches-retaliatory-strikes-on-israel-signals-us-should-avoid-escalation/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:11:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israeli settlers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316820</guid> <description><![CDATA[As Israeli defenses intercepted the missiles Saturday, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians across the West Bank.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on its Telegram channel on April 13, 2024. Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much higher when accounting for those presumed dead. ** The death toll in the West Bank and Jerusalem is not updated regularly. According to the PA’s Ministry of Health on April 5, this is the latest figure. *** This figure is released by the Israeli military...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/iran-launches-retaliatory-strikes-on-israel-signals-us-should-avoid-escalation/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2147785648-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='24187' /> </item> <item> <title>Groups Bring Tortuguita’s Killing to International Human Rights Commission</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/groups-bring-tortuguitas-killing-to-international-human-rights-commission/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cody Bloomfield]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 16:06:16 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cop City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inter-American Commission on Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Police]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stop Cop City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tortuguita]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316806</guid> <description><![CDATA[Activists hope the petition will debunk police narratives and join the international record of human rights violations.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Several nonprofit organizations filed a petition this month asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to rule on the police-perpetrated killing of Manuel Terán, an activist known to Stop Cop City activists as “Tortuguita.” More than a year after the killing, the circumstances remain hazy. The Georgia State Patrol claims that Tortuguita shot first; an independent autopsy shows...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/groups-bring-tortuguitas-killing-to-international-human-rights-commission/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Cody Bloomfield]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1471709882-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='144675' /> </item> <item> <title>How Are US Tax Dollars Being Spent? Hint: The Pentagon Is Cashing In.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/how-are-us-tax-dollars-being-spent-hint-the-pentagon-is-cashing-in/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Koshgarian]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Militarism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social safety net]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tax resistance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316785</guid> <description><![CDATA[The average US taxpayer sent $58 to fund antiwar diplomacy efforts versus $5,109 for militarism and its support systems.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every year at tax time, the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies releases a tax receipt to show where your federal income tax dollars go. Every year, militarism in all its forms is one of the biggest expenses on the receipt. From war and weapons, to deportations and detentions, to prisons and policing, budgeting choices made in Congress mean that every U.S.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/how-are-us-tax-dollars-being-spent-hint-the-pentagon-is-cashing-in/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Lindsay Koshgarian]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1838645447-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='69883' /> </item> <item> <title>Touching Fentanyl Can’t Kill You. Why Are Cops and Lawmakers Pretending It Can?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/touching-fentanyl-cant-kill-you-why-are-cops-and-lawmakers-pretending-it-can/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Claire Zagorski]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drug War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fentanyl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opioid Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opioids]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316797</guid> <description><![CDATA[The myth that fentanyl is deadly to the touch won’t die, and it's a falsehood with devastating consequences.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adangerous myth about illicit fentanyl, the opioid largely behind the surge in overdose deaths, simply will not die. While addiction and drug policy experts have repeatedly refuted the idea that touching fentanyl alone can cause an overdose, like a stubborn weed, the lie keeps coming back. And now the myth has drifted upward to policymakers, who are ignoring the lack of evidence that mere exposure...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/touching-fentanyl-cant-kill-you-why-are-cops-and-lawmakers-pretending-it-can/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Claire Zagorski & Ryan Marino]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Salon]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1918137960-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='73782' /> </item> <item> <title>Here Are the 5 Key State Tax Trends to Watch This Year</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/here-are-the-5-key-state-tax-trends-to-watch-this-year/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wesley Tharpe]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:20:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[economic policy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tax Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316788</guid> <description><![CDATA[Several states are adopting bold progressive policy, while others are cutting taxes on the wealthy.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Critical debates over the role of state revenues in supporting people’s needs are playing out in statehouses nationwide, with serious implications for family well-being, economic opportunity, and support for vital public services ranging from quality schools to safe drinking water. As this year’s Tax Day approaches, here are five trends we’re watching across the states. From 2021 to 2023...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/here-are-the-5-key-state-tax-trends-to-watch-this-year/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Wesley Tharpe]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Center on Budget and Policy Priorities]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1561035556-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='95469' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Forces Massacred Hundreds at Al-Shifa Hospital. Here’s How It Happened.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-forces-massacred-hundreds-at-al-shifa-hospital-heres-how-it-happened/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tareq S. Hajjaj]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:17:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Al-Shifa Hospital]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Massacre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316817</guid> <description><![CDATA[Eyewitnesses report the IDF shot patients in their beds and summarily executed hundreds of government employees.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Human heads eaten by crows, unidentified and decomposing body parts, and hundreds of corpses piled up and buried in mass graves are all that remained of the victims of the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital. The grim scene was something out of a dystopian movie, the product of the two-week siege of Gaza’s largest hospital that ended in its total destruction. Following the completion of al-Shifa’s...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-forces-massacred-hundreds-at-al-shifa-hospital-heres-how-it-happened/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Tareq S. Hajjaj]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2128594530-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='112957' /> </item> <item> <title>House Dems Team Up With GOP to Expand Warrantless Spying on Americans</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/house-dems-team-up-with-gop-to-expand-warrantless-spying-on-americans/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 17:38:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FISA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PATRIOT Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316814</guid> <description><![CDATA[The bill, which critics call the largest expansion of state surveillance since the Patriot Act, now heads to the Senate.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. House on Friday passed legislation to expand a major mass spying authority after voting down a bipartisan push to attach a search warrant requirement to the heavily abused surveillance law. The bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years passed by a vote of 273-147, with 59 Democrats and 88 Republicans voting no.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/house-dems-team-up-with-gop-to-expand-warrantless-spying-on-americans/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2147748084-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='99063' /> </item> <item> <title>Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/nicaragua-takes-germany-to-the-world-court-for-facilitating-israels-genocide/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:10:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide Convention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[International Court of Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316812</guid> <description><![CDATA[Germany is second only to the US as the largest supplier of weapons to Israel.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza — which has killed more than 33,000 Gazans — enters its seventh month, Nicaragua sued Germany in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) for facilitating genocide. Nicaragua charged that, “Germany has provided political, financial and military support to Israel fully aware at the time of authorization that the...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/nicaragua-takes-germany-to-the-world-court-for-facilitating-israels-genocide/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2144483435-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='121724' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Firms Are Working Overtime to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land to US Jews</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-firms-are-working-overtime-to-sell-stolen-palestinian-land-to-us-jews/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eleanor Goldfield]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:11:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Settler Colonialism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316776</guid> <description><![CDATA[The real estate events peddling land in Israeli settlements in the West Bank appear to flout US and international law.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Your chance to own a piece of the Holy Land!” exclaims the cheerful advertising copy on a real estate website aimed at attracting buyers in the U.S. and Canada to purchase land located in Israel and in a number of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The site describes five land sale events that occurred this spring in the U.S. and Canada. Another land sale event held in Baltimore invited...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-firms-are-working-overtime-to-sell-stolen-palestinian-land-to-us-jews/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eleanor Goldfield]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/IMG_9733-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='173755' /> </item> <item> <title>TN Senate Passes Bill Criminalizing People Who Help Trans Youth Access Care</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/tn-senate-passes-bill-criminalizing-people-who-help-trans-youth-access-care/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:56:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-trans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gender affirming care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trans youth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316793</guid> <description><![CDATA[“This is an absolutely horrifying development in Tennessee,” LGBTQ legislative researcher Allison Chapman told Truthout.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Thursday, the Tennessee Senate approved a measure that would criminalize helping transgender youth access gender-affirming care without parental consent. The bill is expansive in its scope, and could potentially also criminalize people who offer information about health care options to young transgender people in Tennessee. “This is an absolutely horrifying development in Tennessee.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/tn-senate-passes-bill-criminalizing-people-who-help-trans-youth-access-care/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-tennessee-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='127156' /> </item> <item> <title>Sanders: “History Will Judge” US’s Backing of Israel as It Destroys Gaza</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-history-will-judge-uss-backing-of-israel-as-it-destroys-gaza/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:30:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316786</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sanders’s op-ed comes just after Israel completed its total annihilation of Gaza’s largest hospital.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel is “clearly” in violation of U.S. foreign assistance laws that bar military aid from being used to commit human rights atrocities, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said in an op-ed this week calling for the U.S. to end its “complicity” in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “Blocking desperately needed U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians is obscene and unacceptable. It is also a violation of...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-history-will-judge-uss-backing-of-israel-as-it-destroys-gaza/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-bernie-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='58903' /> </item> <item> <title>IDF Commander Who Oversaw WCK Strike Previously Called for Gaza Aid Blockade</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/idf-commander-who-oversaw-wck-strike-previously-called-for-gaza-aid-blockade/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:55:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Defense Contractors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IDF]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316770</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israel’s probe into the strike that killed seven aid workers was led by the CEO of an Israeli weapons manufacturer.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commander who was a senior figure in the execution of the drone strike on a World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy that killed seven workers last week had previously signed a letter calling for humanitarian aid to Gaza to be restricted — at a time when Israel was already blocking the vast majority of aid at the border. According to The Telegraph, IDF Colonel Nochi Mandel...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/idf-commander-who-oversaw-wck-strike-previously-called-for-gaza-aid-blockade/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-world-central-kitchen-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='134792' /> </item> <item> <title>Inclusive Education Is Under Attack — But These Teachers Aren’t Backing Down</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/inclusive-education-is-under-attack-but-these-teachers-arent-backing-down/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:51:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Far Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Schools]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316756</guid> <description><![CDATA[The anti-racist educator behind “Woke Kindergarten” has received death threats but is not giving up the work.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shortly after the San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed that denounced an educational program called Woke Kindergarten, the right-wing echo chamber kicked into high gear. Tiger Craven-Neeley, the author of the op-ed and a third-grade instructor at Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward, California, was incensed that the district had spent $250,000 on workshops and one-on-one mentoring for teachers...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/inclusive-education-is-under-attack-but-these-teachers-arent-backing-down/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eleanor J. Bader]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-raised-hands-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='85203' /> </item> <item> <title>Justice Department Says Enbridge Line 5 Pipeline Is Trespassing on Tribal Land</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/justice-department-says-enbridge-line-5-pipeline-is-trespassing-on-tribal-land/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Annette Pember]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:46:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Enbridge Line 5]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pipelines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tribal Land]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316781</guid> <description><![CDATA[However, the “filing leaves more questions than answers,” says Bay Mills Indian Community President Whitney Gravelle.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Biden administration has weighed in for the first time on legal challenges against Enbridge’s Line 5, a 645-mile, oil-and-natural-gas pipeline crossing Wisconsin and Michigan before terminating in Ontario, Canada. In court brief filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice agreed with a lower-court ruling that Enbridge is trespassing on about 12...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/justice-department-says-enbridge-line-5-pipeline-is-trespassing-on-tribal-land/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mary Annette Pember]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ICT]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-pipeline-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='123243' /> </item> <item> <title>Maine Republicans Claim God’s Wrath Against Abortion Led to Mass Shooting</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/maine-republicans-claim-gods-wrath-against-abortion-led-to-mass-shooting/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:33:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Shootings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Lemelin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shelley Rudnicki]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316782</guid> <description><![CDATA[The remarks showed a "deeply troubling absence of empathy and infuriating disregard for the victims,” one Democrat said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two Republican lawmakers in Maine were reprimanded this week for trying to link the expansion of abortion rights and gender-affirming care to a mass shooting that took place in the state last fall. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Maine joined a number of states in passing a statutory law protecting access to abortion in the summer of 2023. During debate on legislation this...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/maine-republicans-claim-gods-wrath-against-abortion-led-to-mass-shooting/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-lewiston-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='122791' /> </item> <item> <title>Hamas Conditions Ceasefire on Return of Displaced Palestinians to Northern Gaza</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/hamas-conditions-ceasefire-on-return-of-displaced-palestinians-to-northern-gaza/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Qassam Muaddi]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:32:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Displacement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316777</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, the Israeli army bans conscripts from leaving the country in anticipation of a potential Iranian strike.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on its Telegram channel on April 9, 2024. Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much higher when accounting for those presumed dead. ** The death toll in the West Bank and Jerusalem is not updated regularly. According to the PA’s Ministry of Health on April 5, this is the latest figure. *** This figure is released by the Israeli military...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/hamas-conditions-ceasefire-on-return-of-displaced-palestinians-to-northern-gaza/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Qassam Muaddi]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-gaza--1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='129081' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Says He Has Enough Votes to “Cancel” 2024 Presidential Election</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-he-has-enough-votes-to-cancel-2024-presidential-election/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:23:26 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 presidential election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disinformation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mar-a-Lago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[misinformation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump lies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump misinformative]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316775</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just as he did in 2020, Trump has claimed without evidence that there will be "cheating" in the 2024 presidential race.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During a recent speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, billed as a “Border 9/11 Gala,” former President Donald Trump pushed a number of outright lies regarding the 2024 presidential election, claiming, without evidence, that fraud would affect its outcome. Trump’s comments echoed assertions he made in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, which laid the groundwork for him...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-he-has-enough-votes-to-cancel-2024-presidential-election/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='65961' /> </item> <item> <title>US-Philippines-Japan Summit to Contain China Described as a “Council of War”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/us-philippines-japan-summit-to-contain-china-described-as-a-council-of-war/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:18:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[South China sea]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=316771</guid> <description><![CDATA[The first-of-its-kind summit comes as the US moves to expand its military presence around the South China Sea.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the White House on Thursday, the first meeting of its kind, which comes as the U.S. moves to expand its military presence in the South China Sea to counter China. The Philippines has deepened military ties with both the United States and Japan in recent years as maritime confrontations...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/us-philippines-japan-summit-to-contain-china-described-as-a-council-of-war/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/SEG1-Bello-Biden-Marcos-Kishida-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='102483' /> </item> <item> <title>With New Lawsuit, Lawyers Suspect Police Cover-Up in Death of Daniel Barajas</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/with-new-lawsuit-lawyers-suspect-police-cover-up-in-death-of-daniel-barajas/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:17:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daniel Barajas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Police]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316772</guid> <description><![CDATA[Key details surrounding Daniel Barajas’s death are missing from police reports, civil rights attorneys say.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just before 6 am on a dark and rainy morning in January 2022, Regis Crenshaw was driving to work on Interstate 30 in rural Saline County, Arkansas, when he saw a man wrapped in blanket emerge onto the unlit highway on foot. Crenshaw slammed the brakes, but it was too late. The collision sent the man tumbling onto the highway, and Crenshaw quickly pulled over and got out to help. He saw the man on...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/with-new-lawsuit-lawyers-suspect-police-cover-up-in-death-of-daniel-barajas/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-m-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='105334' /> </item> <item> <title>House Poised to Vote on Mass Spying Authority Critics Call “Patriot Act 2.0”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/house-poised-to-vote-on-mass-spying-authority-critics-call-patriot-act-2-0/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:07:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Surveillance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PATRIOT Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Section 702]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spying]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316759</guid> <description><![CDATA[The FBI and NSA have regularly used the spying authority to obtain the communications of US citizens.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. House is expected to vote Friday on legislation to reauthorize a surveillance authority that intelligence agencies have heavily abused to collect the communications of American activists, journalists, and lawmakers without a warrant. Friday’s vote will come after House Republicans earlier this week blocked Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) attempt to advance legislation reauthorizing Section...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/house-poised-to-vote-on-mass-spying-authority-critics-call-patriot-act-2-0/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0412-rep-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='123402' /> </item> <item> <title>Top Biden Official Admits Famine Is Spreading in Gaza as US Continues Funding It</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/top-biden-official-admits-famine-is-spreading-in-gaza-as-us-continues-funding-it/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:30:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Famine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316754</guid> <description><![CDATA[The famine is “giving rise already to child deaths in the north,” the USAID chief said in a congressional hearing.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A top Biden administration official working on international affairs acknowledged on Wednesday that famine is unfolding in Gaza — the first time that a senior member of President Joe Biden’s government has recognized the consequences of Israel’s U.S.-backed starvation campaign in Gaza. In a hearing in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, U.S.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/top-biden-official-admits-famine-is-spreading-in-gaza-as-us-continues-funding-it/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-gaza-hunger-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='90690' /> </item> <item> <title>Ohio Rep. Introduces Bill That Would Redirect Funds to Fake Abortion Clinics</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/ohio-rep-introduces-bill-that-would-redirect-funds-to-fake-abortion-clinics/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:13:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[subsidies]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316755</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Rep. Williams’ bill is just the latest attack on our rights by extremists,” one Democratic lawmaker said. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Republican Rep. Josh Williams introduced a bill this week in Ohio aimed at withholding state subsidies from any government entities that provide direct or indirect support for abortion. “Rep. Williams’ bill is just the latest attack on our rights by extremists who want to ban all abortions and take away Ohioans’ access to birth control and IVF treatment,” Rep. Michele Grim (D) said. The bill...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/ohio-rep-introduces-bill-that-would-redirect-funds-to-fake-abortion-clinics/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-ohio-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='89189' /> </item> <item> <title>Honduras Woman Says Country Denied Her Access to Abortion in UN Complaint</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/honduras-woman-says-country-denied-her-access-to-abortion-in-un-complaint/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:11:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316753</guid> <description><![CDATA[The country’s strict abortion ban violates Hondurans’ rights to “life, health, privacy, autonomy, and bodily integrity.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An Indigenous woman from Honduras has lodged a complaint with the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee, alleging that her country denied her access to an abortion after she was raped. This is the first instance of a Central American country being reported to the UN for its anti-abortion laws. “Honduras’s regressive policies on sexual and reproductive health constitute clear violations of the...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/honduras-woman-says-country-denied-her-access-to-abortion-in-un-complaint/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-honduras-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='198986' /> </item> <item> <title>Rights Group: 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza Are Missing in Addition to 34,000 Dead</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/rights-group-13000-palestinians-in-gaza-are-missing-in-addition-to-34000-dead/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:50:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316744</guid> <description><![CDATA[Those missing include people whose bodies have been exhumed and are being held by Israeli forces, Euro-Med Monitor says.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In addition to the over 34,000 Palestinians who have been counted as killed in Israel’s genocidal assault so far, there are 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza who are missing, a humanitarian aid group has estimated, either buried in rubble or mass graves or disappeared into Israeli prisons. In a report released Thursday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the estimate is based on initial reports and...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/rights-group-13000-palestinians-in-gaza-are-missing-in-addition-to-34000-dead/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-gaza-rr-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='114958' /> </item> <item> <title>State Department Has Seen Historic Amount of Internal Dissent Over Gaza</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/state-department-has-seen-historic-amount-of-internal-dissent-over-gaza/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:07:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antony Blinken]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316724</guid> <description><![CDATA[Even the Iraq War hadn’t prompted nearly this much internal dissent, former officials said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The State Department is seeing a potentially historic amount of internal defection over the Biden administration’s policies on Gaza, with at least nine dissent memos and two high-profile resignations since October. According to a report published this week by The Independent, over the course of just two months of Israel’s genocidal assault of Gaza, State Department staff sent at least eight...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/state-department-has-seen-historic-amount-of-internal-dissent-over-gaza/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-gaza-a-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='119236' /> </item> <item> <title>First Brief Filed to SCOTUS to Overturn “Dobbs” Calls the Decision Unworkable</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/first-brief-filed-to-scotus-to-overturn-dobbs-calls-the-decision-unworkable/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexandra Martinez]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:57:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Moyle v. United States]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316747</guid> <description><![CDATA[The amicus curiae brief was filed in “Moyle v. United States,” a case that is scheduled for oral arguments on April 24.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attorneys from the Women’s Law Project have filed the first-ever amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade. The brief was filed on behalf of law professors David S. Cohen, Greer Donley, and Rachel Rebouché in Moyle v. United States, a case that focuses on providing essential...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/first-brief-filed-to-scotus-to-overturn-dobbs-calls-the-decision-unworkable/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Alexandra Martinez]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Prism]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-dobbs-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='118449' /> </item> <item> <title>Federal Judge Rules FL Teacher No Longer Has to Be Referred to by Wrong Pronouns</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/federal-judge-rules-fl-teacher-no-longer-has-to-be-referred-to-by-wrong-pronouns/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:57:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Misgendering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pronouns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TRANSGENDER RIGHTS]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316748</guid> <description><![CDATA[The case will likely be cited in other attempts to bar trans students and teachers from using their pronouns in schools.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Tallahassee, Florida, a federal judge has ruled that a transgender woman teacher no longer has to be referred to as “Mr.” or “teacher” in the classroom, citing first amendment protections. Instead, she can use “Ms.” and female pronouns. This decision follows the passage of HB1069 in Florida, which mandated that teachers could not use pronouns that “do not correspond to his or her sex.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/federal-judge-rules-fl-teacher-no-longer-has-to-be-referred-to-by-wrong-pronouns/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Erin In The Morning]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-flags-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='111729' /> </item> <item> <title>TikTok Exposed Youth to Genocide in Gaza — Is That Why Electeds Want It Banned?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/tiktok-exposed-youth-to-genocide-in-gaza-is-that-why-electeds-want-it-banned/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:04:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TikTok]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316731</guid> <description><![CDATA[Vocal proponents of a TikTok ban are among the top recipients of donations from the pro-Israeli lobby group AIPAC.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act by an overwhelming 352 to 65 margin. If legislated, it would ban the hugely popular TikTok social media app in the U.S., where it has 150 million users — unless its owner, the Chinese tech company ByteDance, sells off TikTok within six months to a buyer not...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/tiktok-exposed-youth-to-genocide-in-gaza-is-that-why-electeds-want-it-banned/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-tiktok-gaza-a-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='94197' /> </item> <item> <title>Over 50 Organizations Endorse TERM Act to Limit Supreme Court Justice Tenures</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/over-50-organizations-endorse-term-act-to-limit-supreme-court-justice-tenures/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:13:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Judicial Branch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court tenure limits]]></category> <category><![CDATA[term limits]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316728</guid> <description><![CDATA[Polling shows that around two-thirds of American voters back tenure limits on justices.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dozens of organizations have come together in support of legislation that would place limits on how long a Supreme Court justice can serve, restricting their tenure to 18 years. The legislation would also guarantee a sitting president two appointments to the Court for every four-year term they serve, giving them the chance to nominate a justice to the bench in the first and third year of said term...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/over-50-organizations-endorse-term-act-to-limit-supreme-court-justice-tenures/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-scotus-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='77992' /> </item> <item> <title>Doctors and Organizers Fight to Preserve Abortion Access as AZ Upholds 1864 Ban</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/doctors-and-organizers-fight-to-preserve-abortion-access-as-az-upholds-1864-ban/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:51:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=316726</guid> <description><![CDATA[I didn’t go to medical school just to go to prison, says DeShawn Taylor, an OB-GYN and abortion provider.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Arizona, Republican lawmakers have blocked efforts by Democrats to repeal an 1864 law — first written before women had the right to vote and recently revived by the state’s Supreme Court — that bans nearly all abortions under threat of criminal penalties including jail time. To respond, we host a trio of reproductive justice advocates in Arizona. Dr. DeShawn Taylor, an OB-GYN physician...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/doctors-and-organizers-fight-to-preserve-abortion-access-as-az-upholds-1864-ban/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/SEG2-AZ-Abortion-Protest-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='112565' /> </item> <item> <title>Salvadoran Court Slammed for Upholding Charges Against Environmental Activists</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/salvadoran-court-slammed-for-upholding-charges-against-environmental-activists/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:30:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category> <category><![CDATA[environmental activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Santa Marta Five]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316723</guid> <description><![CDATA[Targeted by the right-wing government, the “Santa Marta 5” helped win a 2017 ban on metals mining in El Salvador.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Human rights defenders on Wednesday condemned a Salvadoran court’s decision to uphold what critics say are politically motivated murder and illicit association charges against five environmental activists. Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Teodoro Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega were arrested in January 2023 and accused of murdering María Inés...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/salvadoran-court-slammed-for-upholding-charges-against-environmental-activists/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GK0eB6MXUAAjI_W-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='163877' /> </item> <item> <title>The “War on Terror” Is the Ghost Haunting This Year’s Election</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-war-on-terror-is-the-ghost-haunting-this-years-election/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Arun Kundnani]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:17:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trumpism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War On Terror]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316711</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trumpism is the war on terror coming home. Meanwhile, Biden’s war on terror mentality is distorting his policy on Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one ever announced that the “war on terror” was over. But the rushed withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan in 2021 was the closest the U.S. came to an official end point. There was no release of prisoners of war; instead “enemy combatants” continued to be caged at the military prison in Guantánamo Bay. Nor was the geographical spread of the U.S.’s counterterrorism operations much reduced...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-war-on-terror-is-the-ghost-haunting-this-years-election/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Arun Kundnani]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0411-trump-biden-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='103465' /> </item> <item> <title>Sanders Introduces Bill to Combat “Legalized Tax Dodging” for Corporations</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-introduces-bill-to-combat-legalized-tax-dodging-for-corporations/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:14:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corporate Taxes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jan Schakowsky]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Tax Cut]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316716</guid> <description><![CDATA[Over the next decade, the bill would allow the federal government to collect an additional $2.3 trillion in tax revenue.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is taking aim at the corporate tax code with a wide-ranging bill that would close loopholes that have allowed corporations to pay zero dollars in corporate taxes in recent years due to tax policies that he says pave the way for “legalized tax dodging.” The Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act, introduced on Wednesday, would reform the corporate tax code by taking...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-introduces-bill-to-combat-legalized-tax-dodging-for-corporations/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0410-bernie-sanders-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='53228' /> </item> <item> <title>Activists: Biden Risking Student Debt Relief Plans by Continuing MOHELA Contract</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/activists-biden-risking-student-debt-relief-plans-by-continuing-mohela-contract/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:44:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Debt Collective]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MOHELA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Debt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Debt Cancellation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Loans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316691</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sticking with the servicer at the center of the SCOTUS debt relief case threatens current forgiveness plans, they say.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Debt activists are urging the Biden administration to end its contracts with student debt servicer MOHELA ahead of a hearing for the servicer that was central to the Supreme Court decision that struck down President Joe Biden’s broad-based student debt relief plan, saying that the contracts are still threatening Biden’s current debt cancellation efforts. In a statement released Tuesday...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/activists-biden-risking-student-debt-relief-plans-by-continuing-mohela-contract/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0410-college-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='37897' /> </item> <item> <title>For Many Muslims in Gaza, This Year’s Eid Celebration Is Overshadowed by Sorrow</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/for-many-muslims-in-gaza-this-years-eid-celebration-is-overshadowed-by-sorrow/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eman Alhaj Ali]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:22:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316710</guid> <description><![CDATA[The colorful lights and decorations have been replaced with the flash of Israeli bombs and the sound of explosions.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel’s relentless campaign of destruction has cast a shadow over the once vibrant atmosphere of the holy month, leaving behind only bittersweet memories. Despite our hopes for a reprieve before the arrival of Eid al-Fitr, it appears that the cruel onslaught by Israeli forces shows no signs of abating, continuing to mar our most sacred moments. As the final days of Ramadan draw near...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/for-many-muslims-in-gaza-this-years-eid-celebration-is-overshadowed-by-sorrow/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Eman Alhaj Ali]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Mondoweiss]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>2 AZ Justices Who Enacted 1864 Anti-Abortion Law Are Up for Election This Fall</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/2-az-justices-who-enacted-1864-anti-abortion-law-are-up-for-election-this-fall/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:18:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona abortion ban]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clint Bolick]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kathryn King]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316713</guid> <description><![CDATA[Arizona voters will get to decide whether the two right-wing justices should continue serving or be replaced.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two of the four Arizona Supreme Court justices who recently voted to re-implement an abortion ban from1864 could potentially be removed from their posts by voters this fall. In a 4-2 decision issued on Tuesday, the state’s highest court said the territorial-era law should be re-implemented, citing the fact that it had not been overturned by any state law in the 160 years since its passage.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/2-az-justices-who-enacted-1864-anti-abortion-law-are-up-for-election-this-fall/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0410-arizona-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='62128' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Army Veterans Speak Out Against Occupation on North American Campuses</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/israeli-army-veterans-speak-out-against-occupation-on-north-american-campuses/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:47:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Breaking the Silence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IDF]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestinian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=316707</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tal Sagi and Nadav Weiman of Breaking the Silence discuss their experiences.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democracy Now! speaks with two former Israeli soldiers who are members of Breaking the Silence, an anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans. The group’s education director, Tal Sagi, describes growing up in a settlement and joining the military without understanding what occupation was. “We’ve been told that this is security and we have to control millions of lives and we don’t have other...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/israeli-army-veterans-speak-out-against-occupation-on-north-american-campuses/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/SEG3-Tal-Nadav-Split-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='93975' /> </item> <item> <title>Biden Levies Strongest Criticism of Israel Yet as He Continues to Fund Genocide</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/biden-levies-strongest-criticism-of-israel-yet-as-he-continues-to-fund-genocide/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:32:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2024 Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Famine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316683</guid> <description><![CDATA[“I don’t agree with [Netanyahu’s] approach,” Biden said, after months of granting full U.S. support to the genocide. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a tepid condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal assault of Gaza, President Joe Biden said in an interview that aired Tuesday that Netanyahu’s approach is a “mistake” — even as he has refused to make changes to U.S. policy or the unconditional arms transfers that Israel is using to slaughter Palestinians. “I think what he’s doing is a mistake. I don’t agree with his...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-levies-strongest-criticism-of-israel-yet-as-he-continues-to-fund-genocide/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0410-biden-ne-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='143654' /> </item> <item> <title>Dispatch From a Missouri Execution: A Microcosm of the US Death Penalty Fight</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dispatch-from-a-missouri-execution-a-microcosm-of-the-us-death-penalty-fight/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frances Madeson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:13:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abolition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brian Dorsey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[clemency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Death Penalty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Execution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mike Parson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316694</guid> <description><![CDATA[The state-sponsored execution of Brian Dorsey on April 9 marked the fifth death row killing in the US this year.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The state-sponsored execution of 52-year-old Brian Dorsey on Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre, Missouri, marked the fifth such execution to take place in the U.S. this year, as right-wing activists across the nation push hard to expand the use of the death penalty. Two more executions are already scheduled to take place in Missouri this year, despite a multipronged anti-death-penalty campaign...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dispatch-from-a-missouri-execution-a-microcosm-of-the-us-death-penalty-fight/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Frances Madeson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/IMG_0665-1200x900.jpeg' type='image/jpeg' length='132804' /> </item> <item> <title>Biden Hints He’ll Soon Issue Order to Restrict Asylum Seekers From Entering US</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/biden-hints-hell-soon-issue-order-to-restrict-asylum-seekers-from-entering-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:58:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Asylum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Migrants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Section 212(f)]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316695</guid> <description><![CDATA[Critics have noted that such an order would echo the xenophobic policies of Donald Trump and would likely be illegal.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a recent interview with Spanish-language cable network Univision that aired on Tuesday, President Joe Biden suggested that he would soon issue an executive order using the same authority former President Donald Trump used to enact racist immigration policies. Lamenting that thousands of migrants are seeking asylum in the U.S. daily under current policy, Biden said during the interview that he...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-hints-hell-soon-issue-order-to-restrict-asylum-seekers-from-entering-us/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0410-biden-b-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='98138' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel Must Allow Foreign Journalists Entry to Gaza, UN Secretary General Says</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-must-allow-foreign-journalists-entry-to-gaza-un-secretary-general-says/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:37:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IDF]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Journalist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[press freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reporters]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316696</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Denying international journalists entry into Gaza is allowing disinformation and false narratives to flourish.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres demanded that Israel allow foreign journalists to enter the Gaza strip. Currently, only correspondents accompanied by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are allowed access to Gaza. “An information war has added to the trauma of the war in Gaza — obscuring facts and shifting blame,” Guterres said on X.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-must-allow-foreign-journalists-entry-to-gaza-un-secretary-general-says/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Zane McNeill]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout ]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0410-un-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='160410' /> </item> <item> <title>In Win for Cancer Alley Residents, EPA Finalizes Rule Targeting Toxic Polluters</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/in-win-for-cancer-alley-residents-epa-finalizes-rule-targeting-toxic-polluters/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:42:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cancer alley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[chemical plants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clean Air Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental Protection Agency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fenceline communities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polluters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[toxic emissions]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316681</guid> <description><![CDATA[However, a Trump electoral victory could threaten the new air pollution standards for 200 hazardous chemical plants.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After years of advocacy by environmental justice activists, the Biden administration is finally delivering better protections for fenceline communities impacted by toxic air pollution. The new standards for certain chemical manufacturers are aimed at reducing the number of people put at an elevated risk for cancer. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released on Tuesday a final rule updating...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/in-win-for-cancer-alley-residents-epa-finalizes-rule-targeting-toxic-polluters/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>TN Senate GOP Passes Bill Allowing Teachers to Carry Concealed Guns in Schools</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/tn-senate-gop-passes-bill-allowing-teachers-to-carry-concealed-guns-in-schools/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:41:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[concealed carry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gun Control]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nashville]]></category> <category><![CDATA[School Shootings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316689</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gun control advocates, including families of mass shooting survivors, condemned the legislation.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gun control advocates, including families of mass shooting survivors, condemned Tennessee Senate Republicans for a 26-5 vote along party lines on Tuesday to advance legislation allowing teachers and staff to carry concealed firearms in public schools. “Since the devastating shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville last year, the [Tennessee] Legislature has had the opportunity to take...</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/tn-senate-gop-passes-bill-allowing-teachers-to-carry-concealed-guns-in-schools/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>AZ Supreme Court Upholds 1864 Territorial Statute Banning Nearly All Abortions</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/az-supreme-court-upholds-1864-territorial-statute-banning-nearly-all-abortions/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:56:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arizona abortion ban]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ballot Initiatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Katie Hobbs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kris Mayes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=316684</guid> <description><![CDATA[Arizona Democratic lawmakers are urging state residents to support a pro-abortion amendment in this fall's election.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that an 1864 territorial law on abortion, which bans the procedure in almost all circumstances, is enforceable, due to no state law permitting the procedure following the overturn of federal abortion protections two years ago. In a 4-2 decision, the majority ruled that an abortion law passed in 2022, prior to the federal Supreme Court overturning Roe v.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/az-supreme-court-upholds-1864-territorial-statute-banning-nearly-all-abortions/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0410-arizona-abortion-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='163834' /> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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